Appetite Quotes - Page 15

• The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Passion, Eye

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 72

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• Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

  Laura Ramirez

  Sexy, Upset, Delight

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• For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.

  Arne Garborg

  Life, Fun, Sleep

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• Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Powerful, Focus, Promise

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.53, Charisma Media

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• Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

  Charles Dickens

  Animal, Words Of Wisdom, Savages

  Charles Dickens (1843). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.193

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• PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Animal, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Power, Suffering, Martyr

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.

  Rebecca West

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Annual Obituary 1983". Book edited by Elizabeth Devine and Marion Stoker Morgan, p. 143, 1984.

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• China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, People, Curiosity

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's Art World Does Not Exist'". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beautiful, Mean, Add

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)”, p.707, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Healthy, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau, Wesley T. Mott, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2005). “Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats”, p.32, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Men, Yield

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I heard about Dr Breuss and went to see him....he prescribed the juice treatment....By the time I had completed this juice treatment I felt fit and once again had a good appetite. Despite my 72 years I felt my old self again.

  Jurgen Neukirch

  Cancer, Years, Doctors

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• For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Flames, Heaven, Earth

  John Armstrong (1770). “The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq”

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• He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Animal, Men, Vanity

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• Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Wine, Sadness

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• I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

  Arnold Adoff

  Jobs, Attitude, Children

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• Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

  Randall Robinson

  Communication, Community, Needs

  Randall Robinson (2001). “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks”, p.171, Penguin

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• Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Pride, Nudge Nudge

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• Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Food, Heart, Ease

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• Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Brain, Protein, Calories

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• We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  World, Taste, Forget

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• I find no abhorring in my appetite.

  John Donne

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.540

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• Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

  John Milton

  Eye, Tree, Fruit

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.127

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• The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Self, Suffering, Overcoming

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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